Children suffering serious pain with little prospect of recovery should be allowed to request euthanasia, whatever their age, the Dutch association for child medicine has said.

The Dutch government is to reclassify high-strength marijuana alongside hard drugs such as cocaine and Ecstasy.

TWO Dutch women appeared yesterday in a South African court for a brewery publicity stunt that sent 36 women in orange dresses to a World Cup match, sparking furious protests by the Netherlands.

AUSTRALIA and the Netherlands yesterday joined a growing Western boycott of a United Nations conference on racism over fears it will be used as a platform for unfair criticism of Israel.